Hi,
I have to come back to this problem. When I boot over the serial
console, input works all fine until I come to the loader menu. There,
input from the serial console is just ignored, I can not interrupt the
autoboot and e.g. choose a different kernel. I have partitioned with
GPT and installed /boot/pmbr into the MBR and /boot/gptboot into the
first partition of type freebsd-boot. The keyboard works in the BIOS,
and in gptboot I think, where I can interrupt the boot by pressing a
key, and a list like this shows:
FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0p2)/boot/loader
boot:
Then, in the loader menu the input is dead, when the kernel boots and
also afterwards it works again fine.
When I use GRUB to start the loader the keyboard also works.
Any ideas on what the problem could be or how to track this down?
Cheers
Anselm
On Jun 28, 2008, at 13:15 , Anselm Strauss wrote:
Hi,
I have a small router that has no video output, it only supports a
serial console. I configured the serial console in /boot/
boot.config, /boot/loader.conf and /etc/ttys. It's working in the
BIOS, on the boot prompt before the loader starts, and when logging
in on the getty. The only place where it's not working correctly is
at the loader prompt. I can see the loader menu and the logo, but I
can't choose the boot entry or interrupt the timeout. I can't make
any input at all. What could this be?
Cheers,
Anselm
Don't know what this was, but now it works. I use Grub to directly
load /boot/loader as kernel. I set the serial console in the BIOS to
115200 Baud. In Grub's menu.lst I then use:
serial --unit=0 --speed=115200
terminal serial
and in /boot/loader.conf:
console="comconsole"
comconsole_speed="115200"
Seems like this is all that is needed.
Anselm
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